Melanoma-associated antigen C2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MAGEC2gene.[3][4]
This gene is related to members of the gene family. It is not expressed in normal tissues, except for testis, and is expressed in tumors of various histological types. This gene and the MAGEC genes are clustered on chromosome Xq26-q27.[4]
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